NOTRE DAME, Ind. --- The Notre Dame men's and women's cross country teams return to the University's Burke Golf Course on Friday, Oct. 4 as they welcome in some of the nation's most competitive teams to the 58th annual Notre Dame Invitational.

Friday's invitational starts with the women's gold race starting at 2 p.m. followed by the men's gold race at 2:45 p.m. The JV/open race will split action with a start time of 3:30 p.m. The women's blue race get underway at 4:15 p.m. and the men's blue race will round out the day at 5 p.m.

Flotrack.com will offer coverage of the meet and UND.com will offer a video recap of the event at the conclusion of the day's races.

The Notre Dame Invitational has been a part of the schedule since 1956. Over that course of time, the men's team has crowned a top-finisher in the five-mile event nine times and has won their invitational on 16 occasions with 2007 being the last time they accomplished that feat.

The women's team has hosted the event since 1987. Throughout that time, the women have had a top finisher six times. The women's team has won their invitational five times with the last time coming in 2003.

This weekend, the Irish will have to run their best in order to place well with an extremely talented field entering the scene. There are 1,210 runners competing this year--616 women and 594 men. The invitational will see eight DI ranked teams in the men's blue division race and eight DI ranked teams in the women's races.

Both Notre Dame squads enter Friday's meet having claimed both team's first-place finishes at the National Catholic Championship two weeks ago. Individually, the top six finishes for the men and the top three finishes for the women were occupied by Irish runners.

For complete results and a recap of Friday's meet follow UND.com, Facebook (facebook.com/NDXCTF) or Twitter (@NDXCTF).